I got a notice from WordPress that this is my blog anniversary. Eight years ago I started Bertram’s Blog. As if that weren’t enough to celebrate, this happens to be my 2015th blog post. (2015 in 2015 — I thought that cute, and worthy of note.)
In the past eight years, I’ve had almost a half million views. 451,250 to be exact. Wow. I had no idea I was so popular. (I had to double check my stats page. It doesn’t seem right, but it is.)
Thank you for being a part of this momentous occasion. Thank you for reading and responding and for the 13,775 comments you have left me. You are very special to me.
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(Pat Bertram is the author of the suspense novels Light Bringer, More Deaths Than One, A Spark of Heavenly Fire, and Daughter Am I. Bertram is also the author of Grief: The Great Yearning, “an exquisite book, wrenching to read, and at the same time full of profound truths.”)
September 26, 2015 at 6:00 pm
Holy Hitchhiker there, Adventure Woman, that is a LOT OF POSTING. And they are always interesting! Take care of yourself.
September 26, 2015 at 8:34 pm
Seems odd, now that I am in blogging stagnation, that I ever managed to find so much to say!
September 26, 2015 at 6:17 pm
thank-you for sharing your stories with us Pat xx
September 26, 2015 at 7:36 pm
Well done Pat and congratulations on your achievement, it must have taken some doing 2015 posts.
I’d be happy and smiling if I had had 1% of your views , I believe I’m about 0.25% at the moment, such is life as Ned Kelly said whilst standing on the scaffold before he took his final breath 😦
September 26, 2015 at 8:32 pm
For most of those years, I blogged every day. It’s not hard to rack up the blog posts that way. Also, it’s embarrassing to admit, but a whole lot of those views come from creeps who what to have s e x with their s i s t e r s. (I’m separating the letters to try to outwith the google search engines so I don’t get even more of the jerks.) You can have those views if you want them!
September 26, 2015 at 10:39 pm
Thank you no; that’s one thing I get very few of and I’d like to keep it that way 🙂
September 26, 2015 at 7:55 pm
A lot of cool words, Pat.
September 26, 2015 at 8:25 pm
Thank you, Malcolm.
September 27, 2015 at 4:00 am
Congratulations Pat! Here’s hoping for another great eight years, right?
September 27, 2015 at 9:51 am
And it’s about time you got credit for all your wonderful posts!!! A hearty congrats to you, my friend!!!!!